Listening to John Keenan’s “Wreckage of the Past” feels like being handed the audio diary of a ghost who is not yet dead. This is an 18-song excavation of a psyche at war, made all the more intense by the knowledge that Keenan is the sole architect—producer, writer, mixer, and tormented protagonist. The whole project has the hermetically sealed, slightly feverish quality of a...

Persian-American singer-songwriter SHAB has returned with her euphoric new single, "Best Of All Time," an electropop celebration that treats shared joy as an act of absolute courage. Having escaped fundamentalism in Iran as a child, she carries an undercurrent of hard-won resilience into modern club music, using her platform to champion women’s freedom while crafting soaring disco-pop escapism. https://open.spotify.com/track/3ACO7jZT1W8OlLSHmw20io?si=apcuVdMySGKO4PvMBoy_mg The track wastes no time finding its...